Dolphin Geophysical commenced acquisition earlier this year of a 5,000km2 3D Multi-Client high-resolution, AVO friendly BroadBand, SHarp seismic survey which will be completed Spring 2013. This new BroadBand 3D survey in UK Quads 29 and 30 will provide data over a part of the basin margin that has b
Fairfield Energy has announced that the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change have offered the Company licences in the initial tranche of awards in the UKCS 27th Offshore Licensing Round, announced on 25th October. The licences offered are over Blocks 3/2b, 211/23e, 211/23f in the Northern Nort
Focus on the specialised ships and innovative technologies that are proving resilient in difficult economic times in the maritime and offshore industries is ensuring that exhibition space at Europort 2013 (5-8 November 2013, Ahoy Rotterdam) is fast selling out. Increasingly, investors are backing sp
Seacat Services, the class leading vessel transfer operator, has announced that Resolute, its latest 24-metre, class-certified workboat, has been contracted to Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Limited, to work at the Greater Gabbard and Galloper offshore wind farms. With growing pressure to deliver a s
One of the world’s largest drilling contractors, Seadrill Limited has today acquired additional 611,449 shares of Asia Offshore Drilling Limited. The shares were acquired at a price of US$ 5.00 (NOK 28.71) per share. Following this acquisition, Seadrill will be the owner of 26,302,407 shares in the
Unabara introduces its newest hydrographic tool, HydroBar, for calibrating hydrographie echo sounders during field surveys. HydroBar simplifies both sound velocity casts and “bar checks’. A real-time sound velocimeter is combined with a sonar target (“bar”) and a Windows-based software APP which can
Malaysia-based international offshore oil and gas services provider, Bumi Armada Berhad, and an India-based diversified business group Shapoorji Pallonji Company Limited on Saturday announced the ready for departure of its FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading) vessel, “Armada Sterling”
JX Nippon Oil and Gas Exploration Corporation announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited, has been offered eighteen (18) of the newly awarded blocks in the UKCS 27th Offshore Oil and Gas Licensing Round, which was closed on May 2012. Fourteen (14)
As part of the European LIFE+ INDEMARES project, the Oceana Ranger has filmed this seamount off the shore of Almería (Spain) for three years. The analysis of the information obtained will be completed in 2013, and will serve to protect the area by means of its inclusion in the Natura 2000 network. T
As part of the company’s industry-leading new vessel build program, Crowley Maritime Corp. christened the first two of four tugboats in the ocean class series, Ocean Wave and Ocean Wind, on Friday, October 26th 2012, in New Orleans, La. Both tugboats are scheduled to begin work this year in the U.S.
Over the next couple of months, Deltares will be performing a large number of tests with the different types of toe construction used in building harbour dams. The aim of this research is to draw up a more accurate calculation method for constructing dam toes. Various constructions will be tested un
The Marine Technology Society Dynamic Positioning Committee has honoured Dr Steven Cargill, one of GL Noble Denton’s leading technical authorities, with its 2012 Distinguished Achievement Award. The prize recognises Steven’s contribution to the field of dynamic positioning (DP) throughout his 28-yea
Dutch shipping company, Vroon Offshore Services (VOS) on Thursday 25 October 2012 took delivery of VOS Atlas. The vessel was delivered from Fujian Southeast Shipyard in China. VOS Atlas is a 59-metre “A class” anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel and the last of three vessels being built at this
BP has capped and plugged an abandoned piece of subsea equipment known as a cofferdam that is thought to be the source of a recently spotted surface sheen near the Mississippi Canyon 252 lease block in the Gulf of Mexico. The cofferdam is an 86-ton, steel container that was lowered over a leaking dr
